Bayer’s canola solution in Canada

Oilseed rape is the world's third largest source of vegetable oil after soybeans and palm, and Bayer CropScience is behind many of the innovations that are taking this crop to new heights.

 

Bayer is a leading global supplier to the canola and oilseed rape industry, with a robust portfolio of integrated crop solutions to improve canola production. This portfolio includes high-yielding hybrids and open-pollinated seed varieties, market-driven traits and crop protection products – both seed-applied and sprayed – that play a crucial role on the farm. 

 

In Canada an early seed treatment known as Vitavax* RS was a mainstay against seed- and soil-borne diseases and insect pests in the late 1970s and 1980s. Other products based on new fungicidal formulations followed, and in 2000 Bayer registered Gaucho, the first systemic insecticide for use in canola. This was followed by Prosper in 2004, a combination product including the second-generation neonicotinoid insecticide Clothianidin and three fungicidal active ingredients. 

 

Today, Bayer offers Canadian canola growers a highly sophisticated solution called Prosper EverGol, the latest seed treatment innovation registered for canola in 2012. Prosper EverGol layers the insect control and yield enhancement properties of Prosper with a new active ingredient, Penflufen, which provides an extra layer of control against diseases such as Rhizoctonia solani. After EverGol’s first full season of use in Canada, growers seem pleased with the latest Bayer fungicide specifically engineered for use in seed treatments. 

 

“On the prairies we often seed canola into cold, dry soil,” Jay Anderson, a farmer from Alberta, Canada, points out. "It is not uncommon for it to sit there for quite some time before it germinates. When treated with Prosper EverGol, I have confidence that my InVigor canola is well protected from early season disease and flea beetle pressure. Prosper EverGol gives InVigor the protection necessary to utilize the strong early season vigor it is known for."